Colt Lyerla

If the Lions, Bears or Vikings had picked him up instead we all would be making a mockery out of this signing, I don't see the need for another D.J. Williams on this team

If (when?) the real DJ Williams gets hurt then do you see a need for another DJ Williams??

 

Over the last decade I learned to STFU & watch the roster unfold as it's a living breathing thing & even the "final cut" to 53 isn't "final".

 

If Colt screws his head on straight (a huge IF) TT & company must think he can help the team win football games. Low risk/high reward.....count me in

DJ Williams was a major disappointment and I would hope Lyerla is a better player. He's a long way from making the final 53 and any bedwetting from Packer fans is premature.

Physical attributes are not the issue here.  He is actually 2 inches taller than DJ Williams (combine numbers), longer arms by over an inch, faster by a few hundredths of a second,  jumps 1/2 a foot higher on the vertical, jumps 1 1/2 ft. longer on broadjump, and just slightly less on the benchpress (15 vs. 20). 

 

I just don't think it is a fair comparison.  Frankly, you might as well say he's 1" shorter than Jermichael Finley. 

Watched youtube vids on him and he reminds me of Dave Casper. I'll take a TE half as good as Casper anyday.

Don't agree with this at all. All of us would not be making a mockery of the pick. At least not the ones that took the time to understand his background and how he ended up where he ended up. I think those people would be quietly pulling for the kid to figure his life out but also a bit worried that if he did hes got the physical tools to make those teams better. 

 

If Minny, Chicago, or Detroit signed someone like Josh Gordon after his suspension was over then they're fair game for the mockery.  He was given his NFL shot and pissed all over it. If Colt pisses all over the shot he's been given by GB and one of those teams signs him then. Then he's fair game as well. 

 

He's second round talent that had to sweat a rookie tryout just to make a 90 man roster. Any fan that makes fun of a team that gives this kid a shot (especially the kind of low grade shot GB just did) would be dead wrong. At least at this stage of the kids journey. 

 

 

I'm rooting for the guy. We have TEs on the roster who are basically "just a guy." If he can hold it together, he could be more than that.

Packer People!

Oh boy he has a new meme!

 

Try using Packer Poeple! instead, it's hip & edgy.

If the Bears, Lions or Vikings picked him with the 3rd round pick, we'd probably be all over it.

 

No one cares about who brings in who at UFA*

 

*except the rest of the league watched what Ted does. 

Shouldn't it be 'Teh Packer People' just so the meme is as cutting-edge as possible?

 

Great Scott!  I love a new meme!  

What Chiliburger said above. When the Vikings drafted the problem child Randy Moss, I sure wasn't mocking them. I was shatting my pants everytime the guy ran up and down the field on GB and in every other game. DAMN IT TED! MAKE THE TRADE!!!!!!

let's make fun of the dolphins for all their troubled UDFA - it's gotta be better than the circular firing squad that begins with every mention of Lyerla.  how can they be so naive!!!!  the horror, the outrage!!  let it flow!!

 

http://profootballtalk.nbcspor...d-off-college-teams/

As pointed out by Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald, the Dolphins have added three players who were kicked off their college teams, and a fourth who was suspended for a year.

Signing him this way makes sense, much more sense than spending a decent draft pick on a questionable guy. This way, if he screws up they can cut him and be out essentially nothing, it’s all on him.  Almost no risk with potential for good rewards. It makes good football sense to kick his tires.

 

You have to admit though it is another nail in the coffin of the ridiculous ‘the Packers only sign good, Salt-Of-The-Earth, “Packer People” meme (because somehow there weren’t enough already). Guys with talent get second chances (or third, or fourth….) and the Packers aren’t going to ignore available talent.

"I'm going to make the teams that passed on me pay"

 

If he says anything remotely close to that in camp it it means he's still having a tough time grasping logic. He's the lone reason teams passed him over. So the "I'm making teams pay" comment is way up on this list of things I don't want to hear come out of his mouth in camp. "I slept with two racoon's last night" would be up there as well. 

I don't know, everyone here has gone fairly easy on the Bears spending a 4th on a guy that beat up his pregnant girlfriend before extending the league's very own Ike Turner.

 

I'd like to think we'd look away on a troubled punk who dabbled in coke.

How many turds/known character risks have ever gotten big financial or prime draft pick commitments from GB?  The only known risks for turditis that I can remember off the top of my head are the ones that have already been mentioned a thousand times.  Jolly, Robinson and Lyerla were all low risk/high reward scenarios, and that's a total of three in 9 years.  Walden showed some turdish tendencies while in GB, but he was allowed to leave, and IIRC some fringe guy named Underwood or something was a real asswipe.  I'm sure there were others I'm forgetting, but the fact that I'm forgetting them only means that GB doesn't build its core around potential idiots.  Walden was signed off the street and Underwood was a late pick.

That actually is kind of funny given their disaster of a locker room and location in one of the league's best night life scenes, but the point stands.

Mossy Cade was the worst, but that was a long time ago. He had blurred lines on what women he should mate with, as I recall.

hey funny guy -

raccoons are nocturnal, so nobody actually sleeps with them at night

(Except Chuck Norris)

I have never been one of the "Packer People" crowd and it is well known that if Ted Bundy could catch 30 TD passes in a season 32 teams would be investigating his availability for duty before passing on him.  That being said, I do like the Lyerla signing for the reasons I mentioned above, for a TE he has explosive speed  and M3 could easily create some packages for him.  Not sure I understand the slept with 2 raccoon's last night but if he scored 10 TDs as a rooke  as long as he wasn't sleeping with any of tauschers dairy cows nobody in Wisconsin would begrudge him a raccoon or two!

Pack88

Unless he showed up to practice with one or two in his pants.  Then he's really not Packer People.  

What? Nothing’s more Packer People than “running a varmint rescue”.  

I'm going to assume you don't really follow this line of thinking.

GC: I was trying to compare playing styles more than ht, again having actually seen lyerla play,  his game, his style is much different from Finley, he plays more like an H back, and thus thus the like DJ Williams.  No question Lyerla is taller- obviously faster and more explosive than DJ ever hoped to be, he also in the limited action I saw much more a hands catcher than DJ was.  I don't know about his basketball skills what I saw of him was the one more separate and watch a bunch of guys try and corral him.  If this translates to the NFL he could be quite a find.  Like many 21 y/o's it is as much ability and desire and what is between his ears that will determine his fate!

Pack88

Dude can carry the ball as well. I see him as Kuhn's replacement, eventually.

Depends. Did the raccoons consent to it?

http://www.jsonline.com/sports...970z1-259883161.html

 

Man, the baggage this guy has is off the charts. I love the risk/reward however. Especially at a position of need.

Anybody remember TE Keith Jackson? He was a wrecking ball down field after a catch. His early retirement had much to do with deflating the explosiveness of the Farve offense and hurting us for a Super Bowl repeat.  Just imagine what a Keith Jackson type tight end would do to an Aaron Rodgers offensive machine.  Can Colt Lyerla be "the man?"

That look is the look of fava beans and a nice chianti.

 

Yah, kinda draws your attention away from the skull tat too.

Eyes are two close twogether. 

 

Almost a stupid face.

 

McCarthy has already got to him. 

 

Quick thought after reading the scout's thoughts on Colt:

 

I have a little better understanding why some teams draft as ****ty as they do. There's a whole bunch of "I'm a big effing deal and I know a lot about a lot of things" going on in a few of those comments. 

 

I'd like to think that when it comes to good scouting, I would expect the good ones are a little bit "here's what I feel" and a heavy dose of "here's what I know and here's what I actually saw" and take the emotion out of the equation entirely. 

Red flags are just red flags.  They conclude nothing. 

 

I trust Ted Thompson.